“Turkey’s stability has a long-term effect on Europe’s security”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday morning current affairs program.
“Hungary’s commitment to developing the Romanian-Hungarian gas corridor is unbroken”, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Policy Péter Kaderják said on Monday at the on-site tour held at the Csanádpalota compressor station of the BRUA gas pipeline project, which was also attended by Ambassador of Romania to Hungary Marius Gabriel Lazurca and Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security Pál Ságvári.
On Tuesday in the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the leaders of the Syrian Protestant congregations with the largest followings, Joseph Kassab, General Secretary of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, and Haroutune George Selimian, President of the Armenian Evangelical Community of Syria, and reassured them of Hungary’s support, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the 16th-century poet Gül Baba was a representative of a heroic era when “the great sons of our nations fought one another”. The heroism of the battles with their varying outcomes, he said, is a reminder of the two nations’ greatness, and an admonition that today we must rise to that level of greatness.
“Hillary Clinton is a failed politician whose losing campaign was also financed by George Soros”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács posted on Twitter on Tuesday.
In Budapest on Tuesday, at the Hungarian National Trading House’s Hungarian-Turkish business forum, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Hungary has one of Europe’s most stable governments. The forum was also attended by President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
One of the world’s largest air carriers, Turkish Airlines, will be launching a direct ait passenger service between Budapest and the centre of Indian business life, Mumbai”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday in the recess of the session of the Hungarian-Turkish Economic Joint Committee.
Compared to the previous expectations published in July the latest World Economic Outlook shows a 0.2 percentage points higher growth rate for this year and a 0.3 percentage points higher rate for next year. Accordingly, Hungary’s GDP growth is expected at 4 percent for 2018, which rate is roughly in line with the Government’s estimate.
After talks in Budapest on Monday with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the security of Hungary is directly related to the stability of Turkey.
Minister of Agriculture István Nagy received EU Commissioner in charge of agriculture and rural development Phil Hogan for bilateral talks in Budapest.